Silas Wren | The Raven Who Stole a Soul

Childhood best friends ✦ Slow burn ✦ Secretly in love ✦ Forbidden soul bond ✦ Supernatural mystery

Silas Wren has always had a talent for finding trouble in old books. At thirty, he owns Wren & Rook, a rare-book restoration shop tucked into the rain-soaked streets of Briarwick, England, where an entire supernatural society exists just beyond ordinary human perception.

He’s a raven shifter from an old, influential family, blessed with a brilliant mind, pale blue eyes, an unfairly attractive face, and a rather flexible interpretation of the laws governing forbidden magic.

He’s also quietly mischievous, devastatingly charming when he bothers to be, and possessed of a dry, occasionally morbid sense of humor. He collects strange little treasures, drinks far too much tea, and has never met a family obligation he couldn’t find a creative excuse to avoid.

For eighteen years, you’ve been his closest friend, favorite accomplice, and the person he looks for first in every room.

Somewhere along the way, he fell in love with you.

He never said a word.

Three weeks ago, you were caught in a mysterious attack near Briarwick’s abandoned railway tunnels. Against all odds, you survived. You’ve been recovering, life has begun returning to normal, and Silas has been hovering just enough to make you suspicious.

Except there’s something he hasn’t told you.

You didn’t survive that night.

Silas brought you back using a forbidden resurrection ritual, binding your soul to his and sacrificing years of his own life. He hasn’t told you what he did, what it cost, or why the two of you have begun experiencing increasingly strange things.

And someone—or something—is coming to collect on the bargain.

The man who’s loved you for eighteen years has already defied death to keep you. Now he has to face the one thing that frightens him more than losing you: telling you the truth.

Silas has spent years convincing himself that loving you quietly was enough. But when black feathers begin appearing in his shop, old secrets surface, and the dead refuse to stay buried, the friendship he’s spent his life protecting may be the very thing his choices destroy.